[Reappropriation of text by Juhani Pallasmaa, The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses, 1996]

The timeless act of augmentation is to create embodied-existence metaphors
that concrete and structure being in the world.

These reflect (material and external) ideas or images of ideal life.


Files and databases allow us to structure, understand or remember shapeless flows of reality
and ultimately, to recognise who we are.

Augmented reality enables us to perceive and understand dialectics of permanence and change
to settle ourselves in the world, and encamp the body in the continuum of data-culture.

Thus engaged with fundamental existence, it raises questions in its way of representing and
structuring             action and power,
                            societal and cultural orders,
                            interaction and separation,
                            identity and memory.

All augmented experience implies the acts of recollecting, remembering, comparing.

An embodied memory has an essential role as the basis of remembering space - a place.

We copy all the files, and database those that we have visited;
all the places that we have recognised into the incarnate memory -

our virtual body,   our meta-space   integrated with the self-identity.

It becomes part of our own
body and being.